Improvement in washing-machines



UNITED STATES ABRAM DEHUFF, OF YORK, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN WASHING-MACHINES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 132,953, dated November 12, 1872.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ABRAM DEHUFF, of.

York, in the county of York and State of Pennsylvania, have invented an Improvement in Washing-Machines, of which the'following is a specification;

My improvement relates to the employment of rollers or rotating cylinders, combined with fixed inclined or beveled strips, on the opposite surfaces of the wash-boards. These'are so arranged on the wash-boards that when a reciprocal motion is given the latter the articles to be washed are first subjected to the washing or rubbing process, and afterward discharged from the contact of the rubbing-surfaces and delivered automatically at the end of the two wash-boards.

Figure l is a top view of the machine; Fig. 2 is a side view of the same; and Fig. 3 is a vertical section on line :0 00 of Fig. 1.

A is the box or receptacle for the clothes. B is the upper, and G the lower, wash-boards. D D are the connecting rods or pitmen, by which motion is communicated, through cranks e e and crank-shafts E E, to the wash-boards.

To the lower wash-board are attached the rollparts.

The articles to be washed are placed on the rollers a a a (the proper quantity of water, &c., having been supplied) of the lower wash-board O, and the upper one, B, provided with inclined strips (1 d d, which has been raised for the purpose, is now closed down over them and the ciprocating motion, prevent them from pass-.

ing back by reason of the inclination of their edges. They are therefore gradually delivered at the ends of the wash-boards, as above de scribed.

I claim- The combination of the rollers a a a of the lower wash-board G and the fixed bars ff and inclined strips 0 0'0 with the upper wash-board B provided with the inclined strips (1 d, in the manner and for the purposes hereinbefore de scribed.

ABRAM DEHUFF. Witnesses:

EDM. F. BROWN, 0. H. PooLE. 

